Research data
The HSRC Research Data Service provides a digital repository facility for the HSRC's research data in support of evidence based human and social development in South Africa and the broader region. Access to data is dependent on ethical requirements for protecting research participants, as well as on legal agreements with the owners, funders or in the case of data owned by the HSRC, the requirements of the depositors of the data. We facilitate data use by preparing comprehensive metadata and disseminating data and related documents to appropriate target audiences. Data sharing is subject to an End User License agreement. Data sets from the following projects have been curated and are available for use:
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Research data: SOCIAL MEDIA
2021 Social network interviewing as an emancipatory southern methodological innovation
This essay offers an example of a new methodology developed by Southern scholars in the Global South that takes seriously the aim of emancip...
2021 Pushing the boundaries: adapting research methodology to document the COVID-19 pandemic from a socio-behavioural perspective in a low/ middle level income country: the case of South Africa
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) resulted in South Africas shelter-in-place lockdown. South Africa is vulnerable to the n...
2020 Twitter and student leadership in South Africa: the case of #FeesMustFall
With the rapid proliferation of social media around the world, social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are increasingly bec...
2020 Use of social media big data as a novel HIV surveillance tool in South Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has been heavily impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Social data (e.g., social media, internet search, wearable device, et...